The existing evidence for treatment of atopic eczema (atopic dermatitis, AE) is evaluated
using the national standard Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation. The …

Herbal medicines have become a popular form of therapy. They are often perceived as
being natural and therefore harmless. This article reviews the recent literature on the …

This guideline was developed as a joint interdisciplinary European project, including
physicians from all relevant disciplines as well as patients. It is a consensus‐based …

Pharmacovigilance is essential for developing reliable information on the safety of herbal
medicines as used in Europe and the US. The existing systems were developed for synthetic …

Guidelines/Outcomes Task Force: Abby Van Voorhees, MD, Chair Task Force, Mark A.
Bechtel, MD, Boni E. Elewski, MD, Steven R. Feldman, MD, Cindy Francyn Hoffman, MD …

Many of our present medicines are derived directly or indirectly from higher plants. While
several classic plant drugs have lost much ground to synthetic competitors, others have …

Summary Since 1991, the Medical Toxicology Unit (MTU) at Guys' Hospital, London, has
been assessing the toxicological problems associated with the use of traditional and herbal …

As traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has become more popular there have been
increasing concerns about safety and potential toxicity of the Chinese materia medica …

Background: Large proportions of patients use herbal medicinal products, and encouraging
data in terms of effectiveness exist for some of these. One aspect, however, which is still …

Background There has been considerable interest in traditional Chinese herbal medicine
(TCHM) as a treatment for atopic dermatitis (AD). A twice‐daily concoction of an ancestral …